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Open Math Edit puts you in the editor’s seat by presenting you with a variety of useful features. OME’s most powerful feature, as explained down the page, is Mathcasting, with the XHTML+MathML combination.


Here are some of the classical features of Open Math Edit:
  • OME works with popular word processors such as MS Word and OpenOffice.org Writer, allowing you to integrate mathematics into written documents of any type: equation sheets, lab reports, study guides, and so on. Through the clipboard you can also paste mathematics into photo editing software and work on posters, or slideshow presentations.
  • OME includes sharp rendering for on-screen reading and smooth rendering for high quality printing.
  • OME supports output to picture files, including: BMP, PNG (Portable Network Graphics, the web’s free and lossless graphic format), and EMF (Enhanced Metafiles).

different screens of Open Math Edit


Here are some of the innovative features of Open Math Edit:
  • OME operates on MathML Presentation 2.0, today’s leading format for describing mathematics. MathML is based on XML, the web’s most extensible language.
  • XHTML provides numerous advancements from surfing the net to enjoying web services. OME most powerful feature Mathcasting allows you to work on all the <math> tags of an XHTML document, whilst keeping the rest of the markup untouched. This means you can work on all of the mathematics of a webpage together at the same time, in a way that is graphically mathematical, and then you can come back to reedit, whenever you need to.
  • OME allows people to work together on mathematical lists over a LAN or across the Internet. Students can work on homework assignments together by quickly exchanging equations. This could also be a useful feature for online teaching.